Re: [rcirc] Some issues on log and auto-join channels of oftc

[Yue Wu]

Thank you for quick reply!

Deniz Dogan (2011-08-27 10:25 +0200) wrote:

> On 2011-08-27 10:00, Yue Wu wrote:
>> Hi group,
>>
>> Sorry for my poor English if I can't describe myself clearly, and if I
>> did, please let me know, thanks!
>>
>
> That's alright, you described the issues very clearly!
>
>> Issue 1:
>>
>> Log feature deson't work at all, I have these settings in ~/.emacs
>>
>> (setq rcirc-log-flag t)
>> (setq rcirc-log-directory "~/.emacs.d/log")
>> (setq rcirc-log-process-buffers t)
>>
>>
>
> That is strange.  I don't know why that would happen, to be
> honest. I'll have to look into it further.
>
>> Issue 2:
>>
>> rcirc-server-alist doesn't work well when rcirc-authinfo has been
>> specified for oftc irc server.
>>
>> I have settings:
>>
>> (setq rcirc-server-alist '(("irc.freenode.net" :channels ("#rcirc"
>> "#emacs" "#vim" "#bsdchat"))
>> ("irc.oftc.net" :channels ("#emacs-cn" "#arch-cn" "#suckless" "#vim-cn"
>> "#tex-cn"))
>> ))
>>
>> (setq rcirc-authinfo '(("freenode" nickserv "user" "password")
>> ("oftc" nickserv "uesr" "password"))
>>
>> With these setting, the channels I've specified will not aoto-join when
>> connect to oftc, but if I removed "oftc" in rcirc-authinfo, then it will
>> work fine. freenode server works fine in both cases.
>>
>
> This is because of two things:
>
> 1. On oftc, Nickserv says "You are successfully identified as
> <nickname>.", but on Freenode it says "You are now identified for
> <nickname>."  We currently don't support the oftc version, but I have
> fixed it and will soon push it to trunk.  Thanks.
>
> 2. Since a while back, early March, rcirc uses
> rcirc-authenticate-before-join, which waits until you authenticate
> using e.g. NickServ before joining any channels.  This is turned on by
> default, but since the oftc message was not supported, it would never
> understand that the user had successfully authenticated.  You can
> either turn off this option or wait for me to push the above fix to
> trunk.

Thanks for so detailed explanation, I turn the option to nil and now it
works fine, thank you and hope to see your patch in the trunk!

>
>> My emacs version is: GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) of
>> 2011-08-23 on 3249CTO. I have find the issues since emacs version 23
>> though.
>>
>>